The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 03:08, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Doesn't appear to be notable. PepperBeast (talk) 02:41, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The article notes:
Gao Jiancheng was swept away on August 1 in a disaster on the Yangtze River which has been reported only sketchily. The first day of August happened to be national Army Day.Named by China's president, Jiang Zemin, as a 'hero of flood resistance', Gao has become a posthumous propaganda icon. His unfortunate wife has also been swept up in what amounts to a media flood. She has been shown studying an over-lifesize statue of her late husband, knocked together hastily by some sculptors in Shanghai. 'It's just like him,' she was quoted as saying: 'I feel as if he is still alive.' There is a well established convention for the writing up of heroic deeds which dates back to the 1949 revolution. Though China has changed greatly in recent years, this politico-literary style remains absolutely the same.
The article notes: "A new national hero has been created as part of the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to transform the most devastating natural disasters of the decade into a patriotic campaign to unite the nation. The late Gao Jiancheng, a 32-year-old PLA lieutenant, was hailed by the Central Military Commission as a 'flood combat hero' - the first and only such title conferred by President Jiang Zemin for PLA officers. Supervised by the party central, the People's Daily accorded front page coverage to Gao's gallantry. As political instructor of an anti-aircraft company, he had insisted on being in command of a mission in protecting a dyke in Jiayu County, Hebei Province, even though he had been suffering from a fever for days."
The article notes: "Gao Jiancheng was the political instructor of a certain air force artillery regiment. On 1st August, he heroically sacrificed his life while trying to rescue the masses and his comrades-in-arms during his unit's emergency and rescue operation in Bizhouwan, Hubei's Jiayu County."
The article notes: "At the meeting, Zhang Wannian presented a heroic model medal, first grade, and a certificate for martyr Gao Jiancheng to his wife Lu Pei. Prior to the opening of the meeting, Zhang Wannian also met Lu Pei and extended lofty greetings and warm comfort to the family of comrade Gao Jiancheng on behalf of Chairman Jiang Zemin."
The article notes: "Li Gang, a press photographer, still can remember till this day the scenes on the flood-fighting forefront in 1998: When the body of Gao Jiancheng, a CCP member and a young servicemen, was retrieved from the water, his left hand was still held high. ... Four years have passed, yet these words coming straight from the depths of the hearts of the masses still can make his blood boil today."
The article notes: "The long list of heroes who have sacrificed their lives in the arduous battle include Gao Jiancheng, an air force officer who died while attempting to save the life of a comrade. Gao's septuagenarian mother, a resident of Hunan Province, learned of her son's death and decided to allow her three remaining sons and two grandsons to join the effort."
The book notes: "On August 1, 1998, Gao Jiancheng, a soldier of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, died of fatigue after he had rescued several of his comrades-in-arms from a flood. Lu Bei, his 28-year-old wife, made a present of the more than 100,000 yuan donated to her and her daughter by soldiers of the unit in which her husband had served